TOKYO — Mazda is going to extremes to keep two iconic products — its rotary engine and its MX-5 Miata sporty car tradition — alive in the age of electrification. The Hiroshima, Japan, automaker is ...

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The Mazda Iconic SP concept of the 2023 Japan Mobility Show was the sign of a new Mazda sports car that we’ve been awaiting for a decade—no, two. The Wankel rotary-powered, popup headlight-equipped ...

The rotary is kind of like the Rudy (from the movie “Rudy”) of engines. It’s a little smaller than the others, and might not be quite as good, but you can’t help rooting for it. Mazda says that you ...

Major Japanese automakers and brands will definitely try, but we're not sure anyone will be able to surpass the level of neck-snapping attention-grabbing sure to go on at Mazda's 2023 Japan Mobility ...

How long has it been since Mazda discontinued the RX-8 sports car? June 2012 saw the assembly line come to a screeching halt, with Mazda finishing a little over 192,000 examples over nine years. Three ...

We're still waiting for Mazda to actually build the gorgeous Iconic SP concept, but while we wait, Mazda has another concept for us to hope eventually goes into production. Called the Vision X-Coupe, ...

Mazda brought something special to the Japan Mobility Show 2023: a sleek and yet green concept car that could represent one potential future of performance vehicles. Indeed, you'd be forgiven for ...

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The rotary internal combustion engine made most famous by Japanese car maker Mazda is set to be reborn... in China.

The 2004 Mazda RX-8 arrived as a high-stakes bet that sports car buyers would still embrace a rotary engine in an era ...

The demise of the RX-8 eleven years ago has left Mazda without a rotary-powered car. And no, we don't consider the MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV as being a true rotary model, as the engine in that one is a ...